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Maybe I should change this too something abit nicer, humm no I still think your all Ct

Give up for a bit and come back to it - studies have shown that's a better tactic than just ploughing on

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frustration will only cause you to avoid training on that move later.

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Yeah - as the other guys say - taking a break can be good. I remember when I started juggling that picking them up little but often helped me nail things quicker..if you get too frustrated you can give yourself one of those mental/physical blocks whereby you KNOW you CAN do it, but your body refuses to.

If you ad the pain of Poiindeballs, then thats another mental/physical barrier you have to overcome...which slogging on could exascerbate as the balls get more bruised by the balls.

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I find that spinning poi can be one of the most frustrating thing in the world. Yesterday my girlfriend couldn't get a move and she got so angry she threw the poi and yelled how she wanted to burn them cause they were so horrible. She was mad for a while. I thought about how sometimes when unable to figure out a move. I would keep trying getting more and more frustrated until finally I would of course whack myself in the balls and curse at the damn things.

There has to be some unwritten law of poi that states the more frustrated you get the higher the chance of the poi colliding with your sensitive areas.

Yeah I agree with you guys stopping for a while and relaxing before trying whatever move was frustrating you is definatly the best bet.

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There's a couple of good articles here on practising - they're about juggling specifically, but the studies and so on he cites are generic and would apply to poi as well

http://www.juggling.org/help/essays/naylor/

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